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Jul 26, 2022

Seven SOE graduate students garner 2022 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants

The Anti-Racism Collaborative, administered by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), has awarded summer research grants to 27 U-M graduate students, including seven SOE students. The Rackham Graduate School and the Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy are co-sponsoring the awards, which total $122,062.

“We received exciting, outstanding proposals from students representing disciplines from across the U-M. The funded projects reflect the broad range of research that our graduate students are engaged in, focused on advancing anti-racist action,” says Tabbye Chavous, NCID director and LSA associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. “NCID is excited to work with this year’s grantees to foster connections and build a community of support as they aim to impact society through their scholarship. We are proud to support the training of graduate students, such as this year’s grantees, who are critical to an anti-racist academy.”

The SOE graduate students who receiving 2022 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants include:

Yvonne Garcia, PhD student in Higher Education:
An Anti-Colonial Phenomenology of Racialized Knowledge Systems, Epistemic Injustice, and Epistemic Resistance in Graduate Education

Angie Kim, PhD student in Higher Education:
Manifestations of Racial Neoliberalism through Experiences of Students of Color in Anti-Racism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committees at Historically White Institutions

Katherine Lebioda, PhD student in Higher Education:
Blossoming Together: Imagining New Relationships between Students of Color and Institutions through Digital Storytelling

Taylor Lewis, PhD Student in Higher Education:
Towards a “Quare” Battle Fatigue: Queer and Trans Students of Color’s Experiences of and Resistance to Queer & Racial Battle Fatigue

Parker Miles, PhD Student in Educational Studies:
Black Critical Digital Literacies

Andy Pinedo and Gaby Kubi, PhD students in Education and Psychology:
Cultivating Students’ Critical Consciousness and Ethnic-Racial Identity: Ethnic Studies and Adolescent Development